CSE 2221 Placement Test
Special Note
Satisfactory performance on the placement exam for CSE 2221 fulfills the prerequisite requirements for CSE 2221. Satisfactory performance on the placement exam for CSE 2221 does not result in academic credit for CSE 1223.
Placement Test Topics
- Variables, types, expressions, and assignment statements
- Fundamental or built-in types for working with integer-, real-, Boolean-, character-, and text-valued data
- Simple input from a keyboard or a file, and simple output to a monitor or a file
- Conditional control structures such as “if” and “if-else”
- Iterative control structures such as “while”
Programming Language
- Students will be asked to write, as a paper-and-pencil exercise, short programs or program segments.
- Students may write their answers using any programming language they know well. However, experience shows that students who know only the BASIC programming language, or its visual variants, often are not well prepared for the CSE Placement Exam.
Sample Question
Test Scheduling
- Online: www.registerblast.com/theosu (under Placement Test )
- In Person at Suite 585 SAS Building, 281 West Lane Avenue
- Via e-mail at testing@esue.ohio-state.edu
- By phone at 614-292-2241